Intern - TV Entertainment Production, Development & Programming

This is a Part Time Paid Internship

Company Description

If you think all the fun only happens in summer, think again! NBCUniversal has expanded our Academic Year Internship Program. As an Academic Year intern, you’ll get immersed in exciting work, experience our unique NBCU culture, and feel the real support and guidance for 2 whole semesters.

The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.

In addition to our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Academic Year interns:
• Paid time off for mental health, school exams, and personal holidays.
• Robust networking, learning and development opportunities.
• Complimentary Peacock subscription during your internship.
• Free admission to Universal Parks to use during your internship.
• Access to mental health resources including counseling sessions.

Universal City:
• At our Universal City office interns will have access to the NBCUCommutes program, which offers free Metro fares and discounted Metrolink/Vanpool/Lyft trips.

Academic Year Recruitment Timeline:  

April 8 â€'' April 26: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume) 

Mid April â€'' Late May: First round video interviews  

Early â€'' Mid June: Second round interviews 

Late June â€'' Early July: Selected candidates receive offers 

Job Description

Academic Year Internship Program:
• Applications Close: April 26th at 11:59pm ET. Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible â€'' applications could close earlier due to applicant volume!
• Program Dates: September 16, 2024 â€'' April 18, 2025
• Time Commitment: 16-24 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need.  We will do our best to accommodate course schedules.
• Format: Opportunities listed will require an intern to work from Universal City, CA.

To Apply:
• Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year.
• Submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal, the locations (listed below) you are open to for internships, and your top areas of interest (opportunities listed below).
• Upload a transcript (unofficial transcripts are fine) that confirms your status as an actively enrolled student in a degree-granting program.

TheEntertainment Groupdevelops and schedules the network’s primetime, late-night, and daytime entertainment programming, including USA, SYFY, Bravo, E!, Oxygen, and Universal Kids. NBC’s quality programs and balanced line-up have earned the network critical acclaim, numerous awards and ratings success, including most recently winning the traditional September-to-May season in primetime’s key demo, marking the network’s third win in four years. NBC has earned more Emmy Awards than any network in television history. 

Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to:

• Bravo, E! and Oxygen Multiplatform Strategy & Planning: We are looking for an intern who can join the team and make a large impact across the biggest show campaigns, scripted and non-scripted series, news and live events within our portfolio. This individual will be tasked with planning and scheduling daily logs on selected networks and working with the overall marketing group to determine the best approach to take when we receive our plethora of promotional content
• Campaign Project Management: Assist Production Assistants and SYFY/Oxygen teams with various on-air and off-air projects, Monthly Music Reporting for all on-air deliverables for USA and SYFY shows, organize and manage show assets and deliverables via Dropbox, organize production trackers in Airtable, assist Press leads with creating screeners, pulling press clips and/or images for broadcast appearances and/or article features for USA/Universal Kids shows, pitch and edit promotional content for on-air and off-air for Oxygen and SYFY shows, and regulate and arrange asset logs - watching and sorting through Oxygen/SYFY footage
• E! News Digital Video & Booking: Write video scripts based on E! Online news articles, gather video assets, and edit 2â€''5-minute news videos using Adobe Premiere, write engaging news video headlines and descriptions, create captivating thumbnail images to accompany news videos with Adobe Photoshop, screening new shows and films as well as reading books to take notes about major storylines and talent of interest to make recommendations to bookers what talent we should be trying to book, researching past interviews of talent and projects to help come up with smart, fresh, relevant questions, helping news booking team with outreach to institutions and public agencies to confirm and acquire details, and more.
• Entertainment Casting: Maintain internal talent database, curate daily casting news from trades, research upcoming theater and comedy shows, compile ongoing lists of TV premiere dates and cancelled series, manage the Competitive Pilot Report and track showcases during pilot season 
• Entertainment Scripted Content: Schedule and track meetings and pitches for junior executives on the team, file and submit development pitches in online filing system, create weekly “Premiere Week” newsletters detailing all upcoming premieres, releases and finales, competitive or internal, script coverage, take notes during creative calls and pitches 
• Game Show, Lifestyle & True Crime Production Operations: The Game Show, Competition, True Crime, Documentary, and Live Events vertical in the Production & Operations department is the heart of production management for all cable networks, broadcast, and streaming for NBCU alternative content. Interns will attend and participate in all production operation meetings, manage FineCut, NBCU’s internal screening system, review and audit post-production materials in wrap bibles, support Production Managers with document review, updating production spreadsheets, and distributing production information, and liase with asset storage facilities (Bonded/Iron Mountain) 
• Marketing Shoots Production: Backup PA’s, PC’s, Producers, Executive Producers, and VP of Shoots Team on shoot preparation and wrap, provide production related and archive related support to Shoots Team when needed, such as taking notes, collating information for agendas, backing up files via Dropbox, SharePoint and Airtable, initiating conversations with vendors on certain projects, shoot related research, etc, provide production related support on remote & physical marketing shoots when needed, such as logging takes, script notes, putting together talent packets
• Scripted Production Operations: The scriptedinternwill work with thescriptedProduction & Operations teamonvarious scripted projects across the networks.We as a department oversee all scripted series and MOW forNBCUniversal Television and Streaming(Peacock, NBC, USA, SYFY & E!)to ensure they stay on time and budget, adhere to companypoliciesand submit the necessary deliverables. An intern will get a broad overview and understanding of physical production and how it is tracked at the network level 
• Television & Streaming DEI: NBCUniversal’s TV DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) team, also known as NBCU LAUNCH, is one of the longest standing d

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